Isaiah By The Day: A New Devotional Translation by Alec Motyer. I have been using this book alongside my personal reading of Isaiah. It is a uniquely helpful book. Motyer has studied Isaiah over many years and has written his own translation with additional translation notes and devotional comments. He clearly understands and loves not […]

This new title from Christian Focus Publications is an attempt to produce a layman’s version of their 2022 publication Irresistible Beauty: Beholding Triune Glory in the Face of Jesus Christ. The author, Samuel Parkison, writes that ‘too many Christian’s today are missing out: they fail to see the beauty of Christ because the Christ they […]

Covenant Foundations by Alec Motyer, published by Christian Focus Publications (2024) This is well written, and in as simple language as it can get when the topic is Covenant Theology! It gives some truly enlightening explanations of Bible passages. It traces the backbone of God’s covenants running through the whole Bible, and thus it confirms […]

Why Everything Matters – The Gospel in Ecclesiastes by Philip G. Ryken (Christian Focus Publications, 2015) Ecclesiastes can be a tricky book to grasp on an immediate reading and this layman’s guide (the author has written a fuller commentary for scholars) unpicks the literary style and pinpoints the main themes in short chapters that are […]

There are certain books which are so insightful that reading them is an eye-opening experience. Pride is one of these books: Matthew Roberts revealingly analyses the nature of our society from a Biblical viewpoint and reveals the root cause of the brokenness and confusion that we see around us. The Pride movement, the devaluing of […]